Only an honest conversation will lead us forward. Like any field with the potential to inflict harm on a global scale, research with dangerous, potentially supertransmissible pathogens cannot be ...

After a few dogged journalists, a small nonprofit pursuing Freedom of Information requests and an independent group of ...

Two American virologists with former ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) argue that the lab’s recent research poses ...

Scientists have discovered a strategy to fight back against norovirus, a leading cause of gastroenteritis worldwide. Their new study identifies powerful antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range ...

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National Institutes of Health, have discovered a ...

There’s a central question that many scientists face: How can scientific discoveries drive humanity’s progress without posing ...

Last week was the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Asilomar Summit, where scientists came together to establish guidelines for research with genetically modified microbes. Today many more discoveries and ...

Two electors from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences didn’t vote for Ralph Fiennes to win Best Actor in a Leading Role for “Conclave” because they thought “he won before ...

A chilling AI-generated video circulating on Chinese social media depicts a dystopian urban battlefield where a robotic dog, wielding a machine gun and humming a nursery rhyme, hunts human ...

At the end of January, Chrystal Starbird had just submitted her reviews of some grants as part of a panel considering roughly 60 projects requesting federal funding through the National Institutes ...